英国诗人奥登在自己的诗集(1945)的序言里感叹道:一个作家回顾自己的作品往往分成这样四类:第一类最糟,他一直后悔何以写了下来。第二类很有意思,他引为痛苦的是由于才华短拙而糟蹋了,未能写到好处,第三类是自认为看得过的一些诗篇,但缺乏重要性。任何诗集无可避免地以前三类 Auden poet Oden, in his preface to the collection of poetry (1945) lamented: A writer reviews his work is often divided into four categories: the first category is the worst, he has always regretted why the write down. The second category is very interesting. He cited it as painful because it was short and clumsy, he failed to write about the benefits. The third category was some of the poems that he thought he could see but lacked importance. Any collection of poems is inevitably the first three categories